Doctor L
  • country:France
  • style(s):Afrobeat, Hip Hop
  • label:Comet Records
  • type:Composer/Songwriter, DJ/Remixer
  • gender:male
  • instrumentation:electronic
  • artist posted by:Comet Records

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DOCTOR L moves through musical galaxies like an incandescent comet, ceaselessly fusing. From hip hop (with French crew Assassin*), to the parisian electro scene
from the rebirth of international afro-beat to Kinshasa bustling Afro Punk scene.
In 2000 he managed to bring Lagos´ afro-beat into the third millennium with album “Black Voices” by Tony Allen, and even send it orbiting around the moon with record Psyco on Da Bus.

For the past twenty years, Doctor L has been pursuing his vision of a protean kind of music, bringing together the past, present and future, applying his maverick aesthetic to African music. “I wanted to change the classical pre-conceptions about African music,” says Farrell. “Kinshasa and Lago reminds me of New York in the 1980s…a place where you could have a punk band, a hip hop sound system, a new wave band…what the fuck! Like everywhere else, Africa deserves to have artists who can choose whether they’re related 100% to Africa or not. We’re not talking about Africa, we’re talking about guys who are doing music.”
It’s not that going to Africa is any big deal,” he says. “The big deal is to try and get something out.”

Like a painter or sculptor, Doctor L sees this artistic centre as a workshop, where human, audio and graphic stories come to life. From one track to the next, he switches from electric guitar, percussions and synths to bass guitar. And he is also the brains behind the artwork, photographs, videos and so on.